{"id":66402,"date":"2025-05-23T13:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66402"},"modified":"2025-05-23T13:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:32:04","slug":"kano-bans-22-hausa-series-over-censorship-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/23\/kano-bans-22-hausa-series-over-censorship-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Kano Bans 22 Hausa Series Over Censorship Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Kano State Censorship Board has slammed the brakes on 22 popular Hausa film series, citing gross violations of its censorship regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the decision after a management meeting, the Board\u2019s Executive Secretary, Abba El-Mustapha, ordered an immediate halt to the airing and streaming of the affected titles.<\/p>\n<p>The crackdown targets both television broadcasts and online platforms.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Board\u2019s Information Officer, Abdullahi Sulaiman, \u201cthe suspended titles failed to comply with requirements mandating all films to be submitted for approval before being produced, marketed, streamed, or broadcast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cProducers are instructed to cease airing or streaming their content on television or online platforms, and are expected to submit their productions for censorship approval from Monday, 19th May 2025, to Sunday, 25th May 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the series caught in the net are audience favourites like Dakin Amarya, Labarina, Gidan Sarauta, Mashahuri, Tawakkaltu, Wasiyya, Wani Zamani, Mijina, Boka Ko Malam, and Rigar Aro.<\/p>\n<p>The board\u2019s action has stirred intense reactions within the Kannywood film industry, as stakeholders brace for the ripple effects of the sweeping suspension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo The Kano State Censorship Board has slammed the brakes on 22 popular Hausa film series, citing gross violations of its censorship regulations. Announcing the decision after a management meeting, the Board\u2019s Executive Secretary, Abba El-Mustapha, ordered an immediate halt to the airing and streaming of the affected titles. The crackdown targets both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":66403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66404,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66402\/revisions\/66404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}